"I'm queer and Jewish, but I have felt a little disconnected from my roots in recent years because I haven't found any community or group for me to be a part of. What are some good resources for me to look into that will fulfill my needs?"

 

People

• Erika Davis http://blackgayjewish.com/

• Angel Alvarez-Mapp, Jewish communal professional, @angelmapp http://mappcreative.com/ 

• Jeremy Burton, Jewish communal professional, @BurtonJM

• Robert Bernardo, politician, @robertbernado

• Adam McKinney, former Alvin Ailey dancer and co-founder of DNAWorks, https://www.dnaworks.org/ 

• Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, opera singer, @mordkhetzvi https://www.anthonyrussellbass.com/ 

• Y-Love, hip-hop artist, @ylove http://thisisylove.com/ 

• Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, Political strategist and policy advisor

• Matthew Nouriel aka The Empress Drag superstar Instagram

• Alex Blue Singer/songwriter Instagram | YouTube

• Carmel Tanaka Activist and chef Facebook | LinkedIn

• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Theoretical physicist, feminist theorist, writer Twitter | Website

  • (Read more at More Queer Jews of Color to follow: https://globaljews.org/blog/7-lgbtq-jews-of-color-you-should-know/ )

• Joy Ladin https://joyladin.wordpress.com/ and https://www.jewishlive.org/multitudes 

• Rabbi Sandra Lawson on social media https://www.rabbisandralawson.com/ 

• Abby Stein https://thesecondtransition.blogspot.com/

• Bogi Takacs http://www.prezzey.net/ 

• Michael twitty https://afroculinaria.com/ 

• Rena Yehuda Newman https://gumroad.com/renayehuda 

• Dr. Koach Baruch Frazier https://kbfrazier.blogspot.com/ 

• Micah Bazant https://www.micahbazant.com/ 

• Aurora Levins Morales http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/ 

• Penina Weinberg https://www.studywithpenina.com/ 

• Rabbi Fern Feldman https://rabbifernfeldman.com/ 

• R Levi Alter https://www.facebook.com/RabbiLeviAlter/ 

• Dori Midnight https://dorimidnight.com/ 

• Jericho Vincent https://jerichovincent.com/ 

• Chella Man https://chellaman.com/ 

• Adam Eli https://www.instagram.com/adameli/ 

• Binya Koatz https://www.binyakoatz.com/ 

• Nomy Lamm http://www.nomyteaches.com/ 

 

Queer Jewish Organizations (ie that’s their purporse)

Keshet https://www.keshetonline.org/ and https://www.keshetonline.org/resources-and-events/equality-directory/ 

Eshel https://www.eshelonline.org/ 

Jqy https://www.jqyouth.org/ 

Sojourn: Southern Jewish Resource Network https://sojourngsd.org/ 

Laviot UK https://www.laviot.org/

JQ International  https://jqinternational.org/ 

Sephardic Mizrachi Q Network https://www.facebook.com/pg/smqnetwork/ and https://www.instagram.com/smqnetwork/ 

A longer list of orgs: https://www.jqyouth.org/lgbtq-jewish-orgs/ 

 

Podcasts

• Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast https://www.jewishancestralhealing.com/

• Treyf https://www.treyfpodcast.com/

• Judaism unbound https://www.judaismunbound.com/

• Kosher Queers http://kosherqueers.buzzsprout.com/575239

• Xai How are you https://soundcloud.com/xaihowareyou

 

Synagogues

• Kol tzedek philly https://www.kol-tzedek.org/

• Mishkan chicago https://www.mishkanchicago.org/

• Kehilla https://kehillasynagogue.org/

• Chochmat haLev https://chochmat.org/

• Hinenu https://www.hinenubaltimore.org/

• New synagogue project https://newsynagogueproject.org/

• Kavod https://www.kavodboston.org/

• Jewish Emergent Network http://www.jewishemergentnetwork.org/

• shaar zahav https://shaarzahav.org/

 

Other Jewish communities/organizations that are queer

• Wrestling with Torah https://www.wrestlingwithtorah.org/ 

• Nishmat Shoom http://nishmatshoom.org/ 

• Linke Fliegl http://linkefligl.com/ 

• Pink peacock cafe, Scotland https://pinkpeacock.gay/index.php/en/home/ 

• Queer Mikveh Project https://rebekaherevstudio.com/queer-mikveh-project and Rising Tide Network https://www.mayyimhayyim.org/rising-tide/ 

• Fringes https://fringeshavurah.com/ 

• Ammud JOC Torah Academy https://www.ammud.org/ 

 

Facebook groups like Deassimilation Education, Sounds Frum and Queer and that’s Geshmak, sounds like a toevah but OK, and more

www.TransTorah.org  and folks who made it, like Rabbi elliot kukla, Emily aviva kapor mater, Reuben zellman

Queer Jews of Color Resource List https://www.keshetonline.org/resources/queer-jews-of-color-resource-list/ 

 

More Books and Authors

“Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition” by Rabbi Steven Greenberg https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2576.htm

“Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries” https://nyupress.org/9780814720127/torah-queeries/ 

Kate Bornstein http://katebornstein.com/ 

S Bear Bergman http://askingbear.com/ 

Shira glassman https://gumroad.com/shiraglassman 

“Friday the Rabbi Wore Lace : Jewish Lesbian Erotica” https://www.bookdepository.com/Friday-Rabbi-Wore-Black-Lace/9781573440417 

“Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198595/keep-your-wives-away-from-them-by-edited-by-miryam-kabakov/ 

“Stone Butch Blues” & “drag king dreams” by les Feinberg https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/ 

“Becoming Eve” Abby Stein https://www.sealpress.com/titles/abby-stein/becoming-eve/9781580059176/ 

“Soul of the Stranger” & “Through the Door of Life” & many books of poetry by Joy Ladin https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo43635881.html 

“Balancing on the Mechitza” Noach Dzmura https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44439/balancing-on-the-mechitza-by-edited-by-noach-dzmura/ 

“A Rainbow Thread” Noam Sienna https://shabb.es/a-rainbow-thread.html/ 

 

Films

Tahara, Disobedience, Shiva Baby, The Birdcage, and Circus of Books

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiewire.com/2020/02/minyan-review-ron-rifkin-gay-jewish-drama-1202212754/amp/

 

Ritual items

https://www.narrowbridgecandles.org/

https://kolatzmotai.wordpress.com/